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

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

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

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.