...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

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.

What better place to kill time than a library?

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.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving.

Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Have fun, live life, think big, love hard!

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything

She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.