It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.