“Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.”

“David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard”

“Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.”

“When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.”

“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.”