One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

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.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.

I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.