Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

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.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

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

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

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

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

I want to get non-aerosol mace, you just rub it in. "Dude who is attacking me - come a little closer!"

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.