As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.

That which didn't kill them made them stranger.

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.

Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

Culture is worth a little risk.

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.