You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.