Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.