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

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.

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.

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.

I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.