Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

Well, put it this way--I don't want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again.

To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.

The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity

You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Advice is like food, and teaching is a menu.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?