Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

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.

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

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

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.