Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

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.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.