A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Every book is a world.

Value is the unseen reflection in the mirror. If you don't see it, neither will anyone else.

I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.