Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with all-white meat.

Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

Later is always my first choice.

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.