All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.