The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

All living things on earth are kindred.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

The midwife of history is violence.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.