I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Men suck, even imaginary ones

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.

O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

I really want to fall in love.

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.