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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids.

You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."