I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

God performs wonders beyond description.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

A radiant fellowship of the fallen.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.