It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.