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.

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

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.

...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.

In the deep shivering winter, I can feel the joy of a dancing summer in my heart.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

I have my romantic moments - for sure.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.