I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

Join me in this mission, we're going to make America great again.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

I am married to someone I love.

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!