even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

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.

What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!

I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

I find it fascinating to see other people's photos on social media but I don't upload pictures myself. I don't even know how to. I'm completely digital-phobic.

Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.