My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you were trying to swim.

My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.