I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

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.

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

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.

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.

The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile.

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

I think governments can't do much.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.