I drink to not giving a damn . . .

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

Remember, a book is always a gift.

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

Unlikely things are often true . . .

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

The door is always open for you. You just need to open your mind and walk into the heaven of love.

You cannot blame our decisions on anyone, Moriah. They were all made byyou, alone.Clarion, to MoriahAngels Unaware

I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.