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

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.

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

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.

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

Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

Lovers are not snails

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.

When its going good, cash in as hard as you can.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell each other it's blood.