There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.