“Hopefully on my tombstone they will write, "We don't need no stinkin’ neurodiversity."”

“History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?'

'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”

“Perhaps. I need writing. Don't ask me why -- just take out your pen and write your name on my arm -- go on.”

“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing…”

“So today, let's write a program simply. But let's also realize that tomorrow, we're going to make it more complex, because tomorrow it's going to do more. So we'll take that simplicity and we'll lose some of it. But tomorrow, hopefully tomorrow's program is as simple as possible for tomorrow's needs. Hopefully we'll preserve simplicity as the program grows.”

“We need the strong support of the fans to continue to achieve success, and hopefully not only today, the first success we have achieved; I hope to achieve a championship, and we will …”

“Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.”

“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”