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

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.

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.

Every book is a world.

May as well have ox blood running through those veins, ” I added, “You’re as stubborn as one.

The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality.Foreword 'RHG

It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

What goes up must come down, which is why I don't wear tube tops.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.