It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.

Love rekindles the soul of every man.

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

What we love to do we find time to do.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.