There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.

Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.