Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.

No Two person are enemies to each other unless on joins politics

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expand it and work on it

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.