I don't believe in colleges and universities.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.