but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.

If bread - the staff of life - feeds the body

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.

The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.

Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.