DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

May the Creator guide you in unfamiliar path.

Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.