We are the choices we make.

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.

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.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.