But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way.
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
Death is a state of mind – many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.
Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.
I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you’re reading an entirely different book.
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it’s just another end.
A place isn’t a place until it has a bookstore.
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
It’s a tragic fact to die in an accident.
When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
I have so much paperwork. I’m afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
Let’s stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don’t you think?