Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.