Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.

There is zero evidence for god.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.