I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

It's one of the most beautiful, inspiring places I've ever been to.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.