"I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy middles."

"I've always been fascinated by people who are a little bit strange."

"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives."

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."