I wanted to live among books.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

Live so as to have a quiet conscience.