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“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.”
― Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
― Daniel Defoe

“Today we love what tomorrow we hate,
today we seek what tomorrow we shun,
today we desire what tomorrow we fear,
nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”
― Daniel Defoe

“All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“Talk between women friends is always therapy...”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler