I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

Yes, " he replied. "We are --- how do you say on Midgard -- between a hard place and tree.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.