"The Last Samurai" Quotes

I think I must have thought that if I read enough I would no longer exist.

I think it's bad to talk too much about one's books. It spoils the mystery. It also seems to reduce the books to a level where the author becomes like a second parent or something.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

I think if you have to make a decision, you should make it without any information.

Reading is a way of listening. It is a way of listening to what has been said and could be said.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

There are so many books. Always too many. Too many to read in one lifetime.

In the end I suppose these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.

The world is full of people who want to be writers. The world is also full of people who want to be something else.