“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

The past is obdurate.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

It’s up to all of us to decide the future we want to live in.

Fear never builds the future – hope does.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.