As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.