If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

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.

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

I’m dancing on land mines across your chest.Hoping high hopes I’ll trigger some

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."

The only thing that works is a good script!

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.