“Slurring is the cursive of speech...”

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”

“What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year.”

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”

“If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.”

“...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.”

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”