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.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

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.

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

...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.

For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.

Dear Lover...you are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.