If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

I am trying to get closer to God.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.