Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

Everybody is a main character to someone

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.

I’d learned early on that the best way to accomplish anything was to grit your teeth and fight your way through it with the best grace you could muster…

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

I'm going to beat it, ...it's hard...but I plan on being around for a long time to come.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.