America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.