I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.

I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy.Jade Gentry (Polishing Jade)

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.