Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

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.

This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Awards are not the only markers of success I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

I never thought in a million years, I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.