It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

Dragons are fire made flesh.

there is no significance in life without struggle

Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.