I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorrow.Well, that’s... inspiring.

And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men, not men circumstances.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales, " she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

I'm really going to miss me.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.