The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.