Money cannot buy happiness..

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness..

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics..

Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What woul….

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are..

Certain books come to meet me, as do people..

Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day..

As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - prac….

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that k….

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rende….

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

It is always about you for me..

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies..

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it..

You're never going to learn everything..

Nothing else even comes close..

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business..

Everything is personal..

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week..

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it..

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart..