in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.

You can't have too much dog in a book.

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love