Quite definitely a Bingley

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

I'm very interested in people, in general.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.