Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.