“Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures!”

“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained flotsam of your own life. Compulsively recording every morsel you eat, that you're cold, or, I don't know, heartbroken by a football game. An endless stream flowing to an audience of everyone and no one.”

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”

“Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe rather than insisting the universe flow our way.”

“Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I tackle you again?”

“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

“Strength used for oppression is violence, strength used for defending the weak is justice.”