“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
“... physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there. Good bookstores are the community centres of the 20th century.”
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”
“One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god’s existence.”
“Sometimes I think there's only one mother in the world, and we all got a piece of her.”
“But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.”