I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.