Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Every book is a world.

You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.

Hope is what keeps us hanging on when we feel our rope wearing out. A positive attitude is often the natural result of maintaining that hope.

...to many of us prayer is more like talking to a chocolate pudding than participating in an amazing relationship with a living being.

There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.

The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.

The better we get, the better we want to be.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.