To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.