I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.