Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain.

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss