“You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.”

“No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...”

“A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.”

“Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.”

“What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.”

“If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!”