Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

You know what they say, " Amanda said. "Hatred isn't the opposite of love, it's just another variation of it. They both mean you have passionate feelings for someone.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly