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I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going to wear again.

I've been sitting on the edge of the bed for an hour in a complete daze. I told him if I die tonight I'll die happy, it's all here, everything's here.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

I love him to death, there's an Edwardian finishing touch to everything he does.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

All my life I've wanted to see London. [ ... ] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.