I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

When I began to read, I began to exist

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Reading is not optional.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Peace and anger cannot coexist.in fact there is a high negative corelation, the higher the anger lesser the peace and lesser the anger higher the peace...Zero anger is probably bliss.

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.

It's all kind of just all of us coming together and all lending a hand on what we think will make it a good movie.

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.