She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!

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.

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.