You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.