For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men’s Health magazine. Her gaze roamed over his broad shoulders and down his chest.

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.