The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.

Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).Stolen from what?From the tyranny of living.

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

Today something interesting happened. I died.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.