I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

We are the future, and we hope to be rather than taking us back to a lot of the old ideas.

You are what you practice most.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

I do Skid Row every night.

There is no social life outside of Christendom.