You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

Art = Passionate = Stupid- (BackStrom Season 1 episode 11)

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.