I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.