I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.

I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.

My mom is cool and my mom will treat you right.

The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.

I'm only sort of a politician.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.