The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life.

As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring our needs and wants in relationships.

...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.