Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.

Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.

Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others

Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.

Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

In my mind's eye, it seemed like the way it was supposed to happen.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.