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

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.

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

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.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Find your passion and live it.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.

I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

I'm good where I am at this moment.