Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Freedom is not worth it without him.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?