If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.