Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Let thy life be thy gracious treasure.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

There seemed nothing to do but live.

I like it when a movie scares the s - t out of me. That, for me, is just the best.

Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watching my kids' games.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

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