If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Silence is golden, but saying, "I Love You."Is priceless.

It's time to stop following the yellow brick road, use your God given brain, and quit chasing rainbows, because the truth is life's hard, but can be oh so sweet when you choose to own it.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.