A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

The possibility of pain is where love stems from

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.