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

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.

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

‎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.

No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.