Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself.

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.