Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

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.

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.

Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.