I don't believe in writer's block.

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.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Without freedom there is no art.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.