The good writers touch life often.
The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it
He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two
Society in Shambles
“We need not to be let alone.
We need to be really bothered once in a while.
I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?
I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say
“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.
they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.


The Power of a Book
Those who don't build must burn.
And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together
The books are to remind us what a**es and fool we are.
It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds