The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

The show is called The Office and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.