Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Babies are a great way to start people.

Aske much to have a little.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.