When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

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

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

A mystery is solved with a story.