None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

But there are times, " said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

You are the only person that you'll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

We rappers are role models.

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.