I'm a really eclectic reader.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

True repentance always involves reform.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.