...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

You're alive, you might as well be glad.

When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.

The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering