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

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

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

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.

Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

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