The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

We can never cease to be ourselves.

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.