“A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.”

“Books, words, were my most treasured escape. I lived inside stories, I breathed them. I felt like they made me more human, or a better human…”

“I think drugs can be a bit of a lazy way for creativity anyway, you're better off in the cold light of day in the mirror.”

“Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? ”

“A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.”

“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”

“We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.”

“The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen [Frye's wife] must do better than that.”

“The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.”

“Stories never really end… even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”