Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.

Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.

Loving is a laborious and complex business.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

May you find the confidence and courage to climb new heights.

Of course I loved books more than people.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Believe the unbelievable and receive the impossible.

The very long tail of the future is already here.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people