Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

I knew I had to go out and perform. I had a lot of fans watching!

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.