Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them subst… - Anna Quindlen

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.