The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.