A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face.

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.

10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.