Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Together, we can serve humanity with our unique passions, gifts and abilities.

We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

...you fall in love in three stages: lust, attraction and attachment.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.