Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.