It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and the black ones are sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called Life.

He comes.And he comesloadedwith noise pollution.If I ever prayed for anything, it was for a manto shut up.

I hate that you went through hell for years and that you suffered. But without your past, you and I wouldn’t have a future.

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.