We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.