There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

…in the library…surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Christians.....expend more “moral” energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.