There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.
For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.
Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.
A book can change the world. . . Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.
Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.
The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.
What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.