The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

The heart was made to be broken.

I think dressing nowadays went from trying to fit in to wearing something to try to stick out.

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

I try to find meaning or value in most things and be as diverse as possible.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.