The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.

You can call me Patch. No really. Call me.

Excess weakens the spirits.

I can never remember the name of anywhere I've ever been. I will say that I've eaten at a ton of GREAT places. I just don't remember their names. I'm not that guy.

I like really stupid comedies.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.