You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

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 can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.