Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Boredom is why God invented books.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

You can be the solution to the problems of the people

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.