Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

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.

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.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

Twenty-six,” you said. “One for each day we’ve been together, Min.”Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. “And I hope that someday I’ll do another something stupid and I’ll have to say it a million times because that’s how long it’ll be, together with you, Min. With you.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.