Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

We are who people think we are.

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

I think the Democrats are trying to say is like in February [2017] it goes away and you won't have your health care plan tomorrow. That's not what we're talking about.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.