Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.

I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do?