He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.