My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

I have no money, but my wallet is overflowing with love.

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

Even if you can’t dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can’t sing, you can make some noise.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.