Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

We glorify God only as we celebrate people

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

in piecesyet at peacei am a building in a post war city

Don't let go of the vine.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.