It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?