Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.

People at any stage will profit by taking the wheel and getting pointed in the right direction.

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.