What better place to kill time than a library?

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

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

Of course I loved books more than people.

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've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

The Faithful God called all believers into a sweet fellowship with his Son, Christ Jesus.

I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans.

Write on!

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.