"Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men."

“I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.”

“Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.”

“Flattery is praise without foundation.”

Source : Eliza Leslie (1853). “The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies”, p.247

“What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?”

“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.”

“Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.”

Source : 1981 Speech while visiting the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 Nov.

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

Source : William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.31

“If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.”