Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

Our capacity can grow or diminish, and either way, the results compound over time.

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

Decide, first, to simply be.

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.