Burn, Baby, Burn

"Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."

- Faber, from "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

The Reader

"I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late', and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know."

- Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

Vonnegut

"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."