There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.

Hope is the light, which shows the way of life.

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.