The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.