You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.