Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.