“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”

“But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.”

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”

“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”

“You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?”

“It gets off to a pretty slow start, the main character does a total 180 about half way through, and the rest of the book is about his kid. It ends on a bit of a downer.”