History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure.

Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out.