Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

The past only dies so the future can live.

Our heart creates everything from nothing. That is the magical power of love.

Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.

If worrying cannot get you out of a negative condition, liberate yourself from it by all means, and focus fully on finding solutions.

Oh to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.