“If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.”

“If you expect me to read your mind you're going to have to think more clearly.”

“Everything starts with yourself – with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life”

“To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.”

“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.”

“So yes, get prepared, but don't "be first"—don't start talking about *us* and *them* already, because then you're making *them* into the *other*, and that's when the shooting starts. Far too many of the survival books I've read go there, way too early. You're becoming part of the problem; you're not the hero, you're the bad guy. It's all *us*.”