We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
Without the library, you have no civilization.
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
I have a disease; I see language.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.
When I was a kid, I was super shy.
What writing does is to reveal.
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.