Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The universe is continuously creating, maintaining and destroying to create, maintain and destroy!!!! Be with the flow, know what you have to continuously create, maintain and then destroy!!!!

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

Putting on the same jerseys doesn’t make a team. You’re still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

I’ve never really socialized, I’ve always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.