Theo nodded slowly. "You love Balanchine chocolate like I love cacao." "I wouldn't say <i>love</i>, Theo." "No, you speak the truth. Love isn't rig… - Gabrielle Zevin

Everyone thinks they have good taste, but most people do not have good taste. In fact, I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices — literally their own devices — they read crap and they don't know the difference.

People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —