Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.