A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

We are surrounded by story.

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

The point is there is no point in life! Live the Moment!

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.