Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Who said you to give up on your bold dreams? Don't you know that the universe is with you to help you achieve all your bolder visions?

Tomorrow is always a better day.

Do I haste to live? Definitely, no. I endeavour to surpass tomorrow's me.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

I'm not a big planner when I travel; I just feel it out.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.