The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.