How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.

As a Magnolia, you are always onstage.

If you want God to unfailingly do His part, then you must be willing to tirelessly fulfill yours.

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

'Mr. President I am praying for you. 'Which way Senator?'

I like comedy when its mixed with action, it's just so much fun to do comedy with a bit of action, its fun to watch and also so much fun to do.

What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .