The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

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.

If you want to test how powerful your mind is, simply start thinking positively and see the results for yourself.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

Who longest wait of all surely wins.

I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!