in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

You dont have to live forever just live.

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.