Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch.

You are what you think you eat.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.