Every book is a world.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.