“My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.”

“I'm an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.”

“From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!”

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”

“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!”

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”