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

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.

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 essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal

Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

Destiny's Child literally taught me how to sing.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.