When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

How can art make a difference in the world?