She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

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

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

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

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

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.

It was not something you could call friendship

My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations

Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

Have you seen a copy of Tax Tips for Billionaires?

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.