All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.

When I draw, I rule the world.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.