A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too soon.

It was just the way he was made.

Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.