It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair

Small changes in thought can bring massive changes in life.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

Poverty and War have no excuse.