There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.