Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value... - Virginia Woolf

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."