***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.

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.

To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity. To reproduce your life is to impact the world with it.

Death is the price you paid for being born.

Everyone in your life is in your life for a reason, it's finding those reasons that make life beautiful.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.

Be positive and the challenge will be easier.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.