Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Get in the habit of visualizing yourself standing at the victory line of your dream, but at the same time, be sure to accompany your positive imagination with consistent actions.

I've never looked at myself and thought "Oh yeah, I'm sexy." I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Awe is the best drug in the world

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

The people who wake up and jump out of bed with energy and enthusiasm are the people who will be smiling all day, go out of their way to help you, and call you by name.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.