Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.