Death is only a small interruption.

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

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

You can never betray the people who are dead.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.