Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets

It is impossible to find peace in the world if we can't create peace within ourselves.

A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.

...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

Oh yeah Kurt? You plan on getting the 1-2-3? But not if I hit you first with the 6-1-9!

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.