I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

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.

No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful

Novelists invent characters

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

I don’t understand how real Christians let that little f--ker get away with that.

I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.