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.

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.

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.

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.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

The quality of mercy is not strained