Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

They got a manure machine in there, ” Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. “On wheels. It’s fun to ride sometimes, when you don’t care how you smell.

The longer you delay in seizing the treasure, the more likely you’ll lose it. The time to act is now.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.