I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good?

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.

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor