I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Boredom is why God invented books.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.

Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.