It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

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.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.