One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

My future is one I must make myself.