Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

Such a nice ring…Dead Furry Friends Animal Shelter…so warm and comforting.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

there are no nationalities in heaven.

I want a girlfriend who can eat like me