“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.”

“We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.”

“Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.”

“Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it, it it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad, unless of course you keep going to SuperClips, where the hairstylists are so terrible they oughta be using safety scissors, and when they're done you look like your head got caught in a ceiling fan. So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it don't matter no more. I told this wisdom to my mother, and she said I oughta put it in a book, then burn it. Some people just can't appreciate the profound.”

“You’ve got a good side?”“I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.”

“So Ame stayed home like a good girl, and I snuck out like a bad one. I already longed for a good book and my quilt.”