...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

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.

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around

What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

I hate camping, but I love summer camp.