Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

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.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Expect temptation to your last breath.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

The fans only don't support me cos of the way I fight, they support me cos of the way I am.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.