A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, " she said, "but if you start feeling the need...

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

There is nothing as important as having the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

The post of honour is a private station.

The older you get, the more comfortable you get in your own skin. You find yourself.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.