“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.”

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

“Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice.”

“Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other?”

“If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.”

“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection with other worlds and different views, even if that’s no more than being among other people thinking and breathing.”