No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Even death has a heart.

Don't mind what people say about youthe most important thing is what you believe you are.

I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I think I just had an evilgasm.