Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.