We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

They ordered the exterminationof all minds they couldn't control

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

Beauty that arose out of pain.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.