Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

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

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.

They're book addicts.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.