"It is a steadfast truth that breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass."

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."

"It is a unyielding truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The foundation of joy is the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."

"We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore."

"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

"I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny."