Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-- I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?