Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.