“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.”

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”

“The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.”

“It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”