“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

It’s weird not to be weird.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.

Don’t hate what you don’t understand!

Don’t hate what you don’t understand!

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions.

I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way.

I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

You may say i’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.