This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Whether it’s chocolate or socks, the rule is the same; the darker the better.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Very little in this world makes sense.

Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

The Holy Spirit never draws attention to Himself. He always points to and reveals Jesus.

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!