The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

Success is living your essence.

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog.

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.