"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life"

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

"So many books, so little time."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."