This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

He who loves, lives longer.

Passion trumps fear

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.