Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.