“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”

“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”

“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”

“There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.”

“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”

“That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.”

“Often the boy was overwhelmed by an uncontrollable yearning to write down in books everything he saw, despite what anyone said—two hundred books as thick as the Book of Sermons, whole Bibles, whole chests full of books.”

“The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.”

“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?"
"I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said.
"I rest my case.”

“If I live to be a hundred--and I hope I do--I won't have time to read all the books I want to read, or talk to the people I want to know. Not party talk. That's a waste of time. Real talk.”