A little man often cast a long shadow.
The joy of a poor man does not last long.
Be skeptical; long garments can also hide big feet.
He needs a long candle who awaits the death of another.
Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise.
Taking aim for too long can ruin your eyes.
A man with trousers that are too short should wear long suspenders.
As long as the fish swims in the water, don't light up the grill.
Beat a Chinese long enough and he will talk Tibetan.
Men will love each other as long as one is richer than the other.
I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book...
I don't know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care about the book the other one was reading, becau...
I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to discuss them with bright, insightful, book-loving people, an expectation that I pretty quickly learned was about as silly as it could be. Cer...
I read, and underline, anything I can get my hands on, but I have a particular weakness for self-help books. I love these books, though I dislike the term "self-help." For one thing, it's not accurate. You're not helping yourself. The person who wrot...
Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...
Peace ain't worth fighting for.
The change of language is a change in reality.
It is all for naught, if not for love.
Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.
My favorite color on canvas is nudity.
