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Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering
naked and alone

A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [ ... ] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.