The grave’s a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that’s a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it’s fate are people.
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned – in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.