I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

- Jesse Ball

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

- Jesse Ball

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

- Jesse Ball

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does …

- Jesse Ball

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wis…

- Jesse Ball

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

- Jesse Ball

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

- Jesse Ball

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

- Jesse Ball

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

- Jesse Ball