“Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.”

Art is a way of survival.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being.

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

Life with another person is always difficult.

What a beautiful island we live on! The sky has a permanent haze.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days.

Impossibilities will start to happen for all of us, like magic.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The summer clouds: reminded me of the summers of 1940s when the world was naive.

The wind is bringing the cloud to swim.

I’m not going to doubt my life.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

The morning beam is telling me that it’s action time!

Every drop in the ocean counts.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination.

My notebook couldn’t carry the burden of all those words which my heart once felt.

I’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.