Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.

I love ghosts

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

I just wanna live until I die.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.