Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

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.

I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.

Back then they used different chemicals in the tanning process. They prevent ocean bacteria from eating away at whatever is inside. A leather bag from the early 1900's is like a time capsule.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

Now or never was the time.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

I always feel a bit awkward when it's time to talk about the K.I.N.D. fund. I don't want to be one of those guys on a telephone begging you to contribute.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.