“Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.”

“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

“His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.”

“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”

“I don't think I should be getting more attention from mainstream book reviewers. I've never written any mainstream books, and I'm always surprised when the mainstreamers notice me at all.”

“Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.”