I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is