A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.

Accessories are like vitamins to fashion

I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.