She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

Leave the door open," my dad said, the second most common warning in his arsenal. Right behind, "Nash, go home.

Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.

The only thing I've been concerned about is whether I could grow my heart thing enough to protect me from the harsh western Canadian winter.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.