“It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.”

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”

“In 1998 Gordon Hempton, a sound recordist attempting to build a library of natural sounds, toured fifteen states west of the Mississippi and found only two areas--in the mountains of Colorado and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota--that were free of motors, aircraft, industrial clamor, or gunfire for more than fifteen minutes during daylight. ”

“Life. It’s a funny thing. Some want it, some throw it away. Some cling, some have it stolen from them. It’s terrifying… which is maybe why I was drawn to Fear in the first place.”