All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.