There's this huge number of desperate people.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.