The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

I will still be the girl with dreams, even the dreams come true

I've been alone with my thoughts for too long

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.