Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Love your haters

YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.