For it must be very lonely being dead.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing she is just so beautiful.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.