It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

Reading is solitude.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all will be made right in the Lord's timing.