You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

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.

People won't change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

As crazy as it sounds, I really think that God just put the reggae thing in me. I can point to a few things in my life that pushed me in that direction.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

I do try to experience the emotions as they come, but sometimes it becomes just too much.