...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

I love both my parents dearly.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.