There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political - by keeping the interest rates at this level.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

I'm thinking, 'OK, we're about to fight.' I'm like, 'We're about to get it on right here at the VMAs?

The only selfish life is a timid one.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].