You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.