Don't look at me like that, " said Ruza."Like what?""Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.

If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.