A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.

Well, sometimes things don't change on their own. Sometimes we have to change them.

We have plenty of room for people...in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be.

No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is like to be inside them.

Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.

You see, in every story, it’s not about the ending. It’s about the chapters in between and how you make it through them

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.