It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.