Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.
He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. . . but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.
Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.
For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now. ' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.