Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.

During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.