I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.