Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.