As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

Laissez faire laissez passer.

In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money). In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers.

...to forget you..this girl can never do....

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?