“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

“One book makes a complete religion. Let the future authors aim for quality rather than quantity.”

“To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.”

“I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.”

“Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.”

“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”

“A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts.”

“It's utterly incomprehensible to me how someone could say we don’t need a teaching authority of the Church. If we have five Bible scriptures and 18 opinions regarding them, who is to determine? Either it's the fact that My intellect is better than yours; I've studied more than you; I can persuade better than you can; I'm more passionate than you that makes my opinion win over yours. Or we have a teaching authority that says, The rule book says this is how you settle this issue.”

“The old writer, like the old actor, is a master of his craft. Youthfulness of style is no more than a matter of technique.”

“Supporters will come and go, but nobody will invest in your craft more than yourself. Stay focused and start crossing goals off the list one by one, it takes time but practice makes perfect”