Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.