Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Brave old world.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Courage is most powerful thing inside us, It won't let us run away from any problem.

God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.

Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent.

Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.