“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”

“Now the great thing about the current Britney (Spears) tour, is that it has a lot of fantastic dancing… and she doesn't get bogged down in any…. ahm…singing!”

“It is another aphorism that no ones knows everything about anything. That need not dull the pleasure and fascination of the fact that a great deal is known about some things.”

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”

“I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.”

“We often just accept the things that we like and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life. I think that would be fantastic.”

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

“There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.”