I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Mind what people do not only what they say for deeds will betray a lie.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Sometimes thats all life is... One desperate act after another.

The worse you are at thinking the better you are at drinking.

Ive always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away and shows us that the shape of our fear is only the ghost of our own minds.

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her that she had always been a part of him that her needs were his needs.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.