To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people.

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

I'm much too modest a person.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.