True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Let the gladness of your soul blossom.

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.