Of course. You get everything from books.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Don't wish, "said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.