Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.