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.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

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

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

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.