It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.