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.

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.

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

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

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?

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

One person's fashion is another person's disaster.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.