But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

Make yourself a slave to good habits

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

This administration is totally colorblind.

Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.