"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."
"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."