Love is for everyone. The good, the bad, the disabled, the mad. Show more love to someone who doesn't understand what it is and free them from the pain and isolation that surrounds them.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
She wants to know if you love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the cupboard.