I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies are a little more like your children.

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

I have a huge passion for literature.

Tears aren't a girl's weapon. It's her smile.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.