Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

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

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

Of course I loved books more than people.

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.

What better place to kill time than a library?

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

What seeds are you planting?

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.

If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.