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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You must believe in yourself, otherwise we are all lost to darkness

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans out of a psychological need to have a sense of eternal security.

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

I don't think that I would ever do serenade to be romantic. You have to have so much balls to do that.