They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be a...
A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amo...
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
That's what this country needs -- more books!
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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