“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?”

“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?”

“I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn’t, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It’s a hindsight word.”

“It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.”

“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel of approval.”

“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.”

“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”

“People write for ego gratification, not money.”

“Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.”

“I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them”