those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

Love lost can be found again.

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.