Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

Because I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes, talking with strangers, waiting in line. I'm through with these pills that make me sit still, are you feeling fine? Yes, I feel just fine.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.