“Only thieves and children run.”

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

“Everybody asks the same questions -- but they don't know that they ask the same questions.”

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

“Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.”