I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

Perhaps the most pressing need for there to be a forever after, is because that is how long it will take man to thank his Creator for all His wondrous deeds.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.