If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

...friendship is something you do.

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

I'm an indestructible master of war.

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.