The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

O LORD let thy peace be upon all people.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

I'm very much into animal welfare.