People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.

I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.