I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

In greatness, life and death merge.

She's growing up, " Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.