It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.