Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

My fear is that he'll forget me, " she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.