We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

Wisdom is reliable

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.