I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

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.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams?

He who lives in love enjoys life.

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

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