Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

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.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault."

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar