To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

Virtues are worth more than the material things.

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.

Start doing the thing to have energy to do the thing

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

The thing is, all memory is fiction.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.