Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.