Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Never do an enemy a small injury.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Hate today, no love for tomorrow

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.