I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Every book is a world.

I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.

You wave your hands up to the sky, kick your legs to the side. Are you ready, let's do the Freddie.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.