Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Being nice is state of "Probability", not a state of "possibility".

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.