History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.