The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

I hope suffering don't exist.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

It's up to you, not fate.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from.

You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.

Every moment, if properly utilized, has the potential to transcend space and time.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.