Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

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.

What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

I was not allowed to date wrestlers, or anyone else in the company, across the board.

Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.