If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.

I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.