"I felt flattered to be the kinda person one would kick out of a saloon. That takes some character." — David Ives (Scrib)
"Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good." — Tim Tharp (The Spectacular Now)
""What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"" — Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
"Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension." — Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)
"How will the world change if we do not question it?" — Kate DiCamillo (The Magician's Elephant)
"In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel . . . is a rare gift indeed." — Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer)
"These kids are all trying so hard to be weird. I'm genuinely weird, so I can spot the effort a mile away." — Brent Crawford (Carter Finally Gets It)
"Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this--two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject." — Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)
"Never trust an exclamation point." — Linda Urban (A Crooked Kind of Perfect)
"There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't." — Sarah Vowell (The Partly Cloudy Patriot)