Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

What is the scent of water?""Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Louis [C.K.] is great. But I don't know how many you could do.

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.