That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

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.

It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

Don't give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.