When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

I'm a really eclectic reader.