He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Don't aim, listen. Don't run, walk. Don't doubt, Move. Your heart will guide you in the right direction.

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

Faith that doesn't affect your life isn't really faith.