Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent...

“Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked.<br /> "If I did?"<br /> "I don't like it."<br /> He grinned. "It stays, Angel.”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to...

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

“Do a loony-goony dance <br /> 'Cross the kitchen floor, <br /> Put something silly in the world <br /> That ain't been there before.”

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do...

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a...

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”