Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

Think and unfold the beauty of your mind.

If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.

It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.

Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels like a relationship that is actually working.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.