“Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.”

“The best years are when you know what you're doing.”

“So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.”

“So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.”

“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get insidea book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wantedto be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed infor ever.”

“…a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.”

“There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive foraction or change.”