The business of books is the business of life.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

Give what you can, take what you need.

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACHIEVE, EVERY SEASON IS A NEW SEASON. WHAT YOU ACHIEVED THE SEASON BEFORE IS NO LONGER RELEVANT.

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!