But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.