“Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.”

“Reading is not optional.”

“Were suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they dont read but, actually, were condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their m...”

“All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.”

“Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.”

“Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”