“Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.”

“Some necrophobes earn their own fates.”

“Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.”

“To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.”

“Cant call em zombies anymore, sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. Now we gotta be all politically correct. Its like the Cold Wars never happened.”

“Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive.”

“A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbi...”

“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”

“Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.”

“There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.”

“Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through ...”