But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.

It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived.And he’s going to be fine.

You get only two or three important choices in life. What job you do, whom you marry. Those are big decisions. If you’re right about those two decisions, you’ll probably be happy.

because admitting your limitations, and accepting help, makes you stronger, too.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.