Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

It is almost as thoughsomething else is breathingquite close by, invisibly.The mystery of the names…Albizzia. Gleditsia.Aucuba japonica. AndI am listening, seeing. Seeing, like someone twice alive.

Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

Future hipsters will love me ironically.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.