I don't even know what a room without books looks like.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.

Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.

You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.

You could say we run a dating service. If you with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.

Reading great books always gives me the worst sleeping disorders.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.