Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Every knock is a boost.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.