shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.