School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

we all need someone to talk to, be with and love

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

I've been the underdog in my life since I was a kid.