Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

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.

A true healer is the one who heals himself first so others can benefit from his own healing.

Our ideas are like boomerangs, when you throw them they are destined to come back.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.