A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!

I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.