“...any schmoozer can light a candle.”

“Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.”

“...there is something fluid about [packs] during the course of any individual manifestation. [p. 127]”

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”

“Books have no life; they lack feeling maybe, and perhaps cannot feel pain, as animals and even plants feel pain. But what proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain? Who knows if a book may not yearn for other books, its companions of many years, in some way strange to us and therefore never yet perceived?”