And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.

I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?