Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

Everybody has a theory.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .

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.