You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

Reading is not optional.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch