I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Your strength is beyond your own imagination.

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.