You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.