You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.

Love where there is no reason to love

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.