Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

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.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

Our ability to succeed in life lays on us”.

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart