I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't - they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown