You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

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.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.

I told myself a thousand times every single day I needed to forget you. I forgot to forget, and I forgot what I told myself" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions

Going in the known is like knowing the rules, once you know it... better you will do it.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

The nine of us being together is more important than anything else.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!