We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Leave no path untaken.

Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.