"Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo." "Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it."

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.

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.

Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.

all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.