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Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.