"I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph."

"A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life."

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

"Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun."

"I'm a solipsist and, I have to say, I'm surprised there aren't more of us."

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

"When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts."

"Impossible is nothing."

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."