"I accept your condemnation," I said.

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.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

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.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

the way it always did.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #‎ change our lives.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.