If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Tenacity is what it takes to dare unrelentingly

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

My father did not teach me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.

I'm a little fighter and I stand up for what I believe in.

You have to really know what you're saying.

Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.