We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Tell them stories.

Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Back when I was in elementary school, I didnt have many friends.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.

My failures has helped me as much as my successes.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.