When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Gaston Bachelard

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Richard Harris

Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.

George Bernard Shaw

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Christopher Lasch

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

Mark Davis

Uccello cello cello I love myself.

Peter Levi

But I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to him, and not to the priests. I never told my own religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives, and by this test, my dear Madam, I have been satisfied yours must be an excellent one, to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read. By the same test the world must judge me.

Thomas Jefferson

All you need is love.

John Lennon

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Cormier

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

Cassandra Clare

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

M. Russell Ballard