"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

"It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored."

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."

"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores."

"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them."

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."

"In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom."

"I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War."