Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe

Only God would adore his own death.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

I am proud to be a Southerner.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.