Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.