Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead."

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.