I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.

You can't have too much dog in a book.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. (“Is that all there is?”)

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.