His writings have made me his friend.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering.

Don’t go to sleep to dream. Wake up and dream.

If you think you need to forgive anyone....you got it all wrong.

I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

Patience is grossly underestimated.

My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots