Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.