"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."
"I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr."
"I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come."
"Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome."
"We all romanticize the people we adore."