“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.

Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.

In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!

A life’s work should be based on love.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

I love comic books. I just do.

I love comic books. I just do.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.