Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

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Do it for joy and you can do it forever

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

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I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

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The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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