“If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.”

“If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all.”

“The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.”

“No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.”

“When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.”

“Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.”

“Most of the world's problems will be solved if literacy prevailed.”

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”

“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can...”

“Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.”

“There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.”

“Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through ...”

“Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.”