I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

Momentum builds success.

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.