That's what this country needs -- more books!

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.

Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.