I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Dear me, how I love a library.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.