For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

There's truths you have to grow into.

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.