Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

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.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

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.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

Women have always been spies

Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.