That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.