Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

All I know is, being away from you......makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much

Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.

No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing