Why are you crying?""I was reading.

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

The words you can't find, you borrow.

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.

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.

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

I never thought that I was very intelligent

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.