Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

The greatest joy in life comes not from winning but from giving.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

A man who speaks truth is always surrounded by haters, while the rest who who admire him seldom stay in his company!

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.

It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.