I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

If a person refuses to develop his potential, it can lead to nervous or mental disorders, somatic diseases and personal degradation

Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.

You don't need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you'll go with confidence.

Believe me, " he said simply.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.