To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

The smartest fish are still in the sea.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

My life is bigger than basketball.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.