A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you’re going to read next." [ , PWxyz (news blog...
I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just ...
If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.
It is better to be without a book than to believe it entirely.
A donkey that carries a lot of books is not necessarily learned.
[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want t...
Carmack was of the moment. His ruling force was focus. Time existed for him not in some promising future or sentimental past but in the present condition, the intricate web ol problems and solutions, imagination and code. He kept nothing from the pas...
Ellerby: This unit is new, and you are the newest members of it. You have been selected from the basis of intelligence and aptitude. This is an elite unit. Our job is to smash, or marginally disrupt, organized crime in the city by enhanced cooperatio...
War makes persons special, peoples cheap.
Don't hold grudges. Life's too long.
Life is short unless agony is long.
I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.
It's up to you, not fate.
I hope suffering don't exist.
All readers have reading in common.
But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.
Remember...You can fool all but the universe!
For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.
People hide the truth to protect those they love!
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
