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

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.

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

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

Forgiveness comes later in life, after you've created enough disasters of your own.

Love is a funny thing. It’s not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it’s better not to be in love at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Anything on paper is obsolete!

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.