If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

The only certainty life contains is death.

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.

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There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.