Tragedy alters everything.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

I can't help seeing a cage for what it is. Sure, it protects the bulb, but maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.

baby you light up my world like nobody else

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

Nothing is impossible in the United States.

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!