To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

Of course. You get everything from books.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Don't wish, "said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

If you don't know how to do it, get around someone else who does.