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

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.

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.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers.

Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Demon hunting and fashion," Clary said. "I never would have thought they went together.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.