If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

There is a root to every action, which is really a reaction to what is going on inside of us.

Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.We had found it.But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun some joy some real satisfaction that day is a loss.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.