As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together, ' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.