Stories are for the late hour of the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are.  Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember but the story. 

      ~Tim O'Brien, "The Things The Carried"

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.                                 

~ Augustine

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

~ Alice Walker