It is the Mass the matters.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is the Mass that matters.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

True love is the most rare thing in the world. Most people just pretend to love.

Whenever I write I always transport myself into the story to get a better glimpse to what I am capturing.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

He who honestly instructs reverences God.

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.