When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help heal my heart.

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.