“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

Tell the truth and make it rhyme.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.

Don’t hate what you don’t understand!

Don’t hate what you don’t understand!

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions.

I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way.

I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

You may say i’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

A boy has to peddle his book.

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

We were a short lived anthology of things no one else could read.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.