There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery.

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

The suffering was shaping her perception about life, her values, priorities, goals and dreams.

Expect progress, not perfection.

The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.

Fear is a communicable disease

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.