It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

I can't exist without books.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.