I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

A library is infinity under a roof.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

All good that we do is just for you.

Lie to yourself, not to someone else

But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.

Not even my parents know how I vote.