I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them

Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment.

The riches of adversity

You know what would be awesome? . . . If I could have a machete.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

There is always room for at least two truths.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.