My books are about killing God.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.