Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.