I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

It never ends, the bruiseof being

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

The cowslip is a country wench.