Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

There is no more hateful person than a Christian who thinks you’ve got your theology wrong.

Kind words are sweet to the soul.

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

It's sad that my daughter will get attention because of her daddy. I'm already watching her run around the house and pick up microphones. It's scary.

Having a manicure pulls a look together. Hands are the first thing people see after your face.

Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.