"The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something."
"I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn."
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely."
"It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor... but family."
Tywin Lannister
"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."
Joss Whedon