Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

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.

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

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them