Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.

Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again.

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.

We don't consider a trip to Boston complete if it doesn't include a visit to Flour Bakery for a BLT and a couple of cookies. With Flour, Too we can live vicariously and be there whenever we want.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.