This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.

Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.