“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until...

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn....

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took...

“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being...

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”

“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”