I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Fate does not seek our consent.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.