Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.