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

Of course. You get everything from books.

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

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

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.

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.

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.