That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

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.

A book is not completed till it's read.

No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

It is a human demolition derby!

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.