I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.