I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

I don’t know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole

Take therefore no thought of the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to.

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.