There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Music is only love looking for words.

Give generously.

I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

Do something everyday that scares you.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.