I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.