“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.

I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn’t have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I read an hour almost every night. It’s part of falling asleep.