Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.

Being friends with you was great but now we will be both friends and lovers.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.