If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

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.

Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards

The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.