I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.

The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.