"I am not an optimist. I am a possibilist."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"I've always been a bit of a rebel."

"The best thing to do with a bad book is to burn it."