I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

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I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. ― Steven Wright

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. - Voltaire

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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

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While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. ― Steven Wright

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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. ― Bill Watterson

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Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. ― Clive Barker

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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

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