Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

I, the infirm, find myself caring for the sorrows and fears of the well.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats?

There is a God. God exists.