I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

No matter how much tarnish you think is on the tabernacle of your heart, you still shine because of God's love.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.