A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.

Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo's frustrations, with the veteran's frustrations.