We live inside our parents' backstory.

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.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

I thought he worked for Heaven.' I thought I was in love.

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

We are just as a good as men are - and maybe better and smarter.