she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

If you feel something, you should do it.

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.