Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

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.

Greed is the prison of poverty.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.