“Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.”

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”

“When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.”

“I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.”

“I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.”

“The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed -- eventually.”