I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength

I had to take the first step for myself.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

Value is coextensive with reality.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short.

Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality.

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.