A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.