...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

Reading is solitude.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

work, pray and play not from here

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.