“That’s why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.”

“Try not to kill me with your love,try not to break a glass wallseeing everything,but going unheard,the words feel unspoken.Crystals gleaming at our feet,innocently joined by red fistsand a kiss.”

“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for nightWithout me you’d be blindYou take me for granted every timeBut now you can’t see you set a sparkI come alive and rid out the dark Now you see in the light useless toolBut go where you can’t see and you’re the foolpoem i wrote”

“People always talk about how great Deathday Letters are. About how they give people a chance to say goodbye. About how terrible the world would be without them.”

“Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.”

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

“if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.”