If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead."

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.