Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.