The words you can't find, you borrow.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Every book is a world.

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me

Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.