I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

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.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.

Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

I always put a little bit of restrictions on myself, and I only do it for my creativity.