I cannot live without books because books are my life.

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.”I nodded slowly. “Right, ” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think.

You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.

Be kind to every body and every body will be kind to you.

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.