“The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.”
“I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seemto contain it. But I need the stupid things.”
“Books remember all the things you cannot contain.”
“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!”