The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.

Love, it is timeless. It can transcend the very limits of time and space, as long as it stays forever true in our hearts.

Stern observes that unformulated experience is not only a source of defense, but also a source of creativity. We must allow the unformulated to organize itself.

And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to know

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.