I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.

Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).Stolen from what?From the tyranny of living.

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Not many people ask me out.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.