It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.