People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

For it must be very lonely being dead.

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.