A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

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.

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back.