Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

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.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.