She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

What better place to kill time than a library?

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

knowledge is the best gift of pure God .

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.