What a schmuck!

everything happens for a reason.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

...It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so

Those trying moments teach us to desire greatness in ourselves and wider humanity.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

A story knows its way.

The great cancer facing all of us during this ‘new millennium’ is entitlement.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.