One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Political correctness is bad.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.