They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

To be happy, think about happiness, and see happiness and beauty in every little thing.

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.

The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.