Words worth keeping

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?""A long one?

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Books may well be the only true magic.