I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

For my mum, to whom I'd turn in a heartbeat.

You deserve to be happy, Dylan." "So do you." "Good thing we've got each other then, " she answers, tucking herself into my shoulder, and wrapping her arm around my back.

Stay in your lane.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Nice to see you, to see you nice

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.