Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

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.

You'll do fine.""What, you're psychic now?""Didn't you know?" he asks seriously. "Must be an aftereffect of the bond.

Kiss away the past as you head towards the future.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.

If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.