Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.

You can't help those who don't know they need help.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.