I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

The dimension of our influence on earth depends on the dimensions of how big we are before God

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

There is a high cost for low living.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.