“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”

We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.

My heart is just to express what has helped me with love.

There is no counselor, teacher or parent who can ever help you find that why. That shit will always be on you!

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

My drive and passion will outweigh your hate! Nothing you can do to stop me. You only help me!

If you see someone struggling, help them.

Congress must move forward vigorously and help the American people.