Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.

The status quo sucks.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Someone who wants to be with you, WILL be with you. End of story.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.