“Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)”
“Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him.And sometimes they don’t.”
“Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.”
“People don’t dislike change, they dislike being changed.”
“Sometimes when you read a book or watch a TV show, you see the people and you think, Don’t do that. Don’t open that door. Don’t answer that phone. You know everything is about to change. “Stop!” you want to say. “Rewrite the story. Rewind the tape. Don’t let it happen that way.” But you can’t. The people always open the door or answer the phone. The bad thing always happens, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t”