America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Education is the light switch for the mind. You have to turn it on to see the world in your own way.

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

Smile, breathe, relax and stay present.