I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

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.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.