It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent