Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.

The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.