I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

To find yourself, lose yourself in search of knowledge and love.

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck

I don't want to have people get completely sick of me before I've ever even done something legitimate.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.