“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

“Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!”

“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.”

“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”