I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Life is only a part of Death, not Death is a part of Life..

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Though everyone who mattered to him told him to walk away, though Lindsey herself told him to walk away, he was still here. And she was still glad.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.