Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.

Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.