Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Because fear kills everything, " Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

All writers are insane!

Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.

Being a young leader is not the problem, having a small mind is

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.