People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Bible

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Les Brown

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Stephen Covey

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

Without an understanding of purpose, misuse is inevitable; abuse unavoidable.

Pedro Okoro

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Jodi Picoult

Death is nature's way of making things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its chance to try something new on the world. But time is called and the molecules which make up leaf and limb, heart and eye are disassembled and redistributed to other tenants.

Peter Steinhart