Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

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.

The great mentor is master builder of great students.

Losing something is difficult while gaining something is easier. So try to gain beauty and make your life prettier.

Move from the known to the unknown.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.