I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Our people... blood is the only language we speak. I'm all out of words.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

I became a villain for doing the right thing.

We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and he loves us back.