If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it’s possible and you do it.

If the body is pampered, the mind is free to concentrate.

C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

Amy sighed. Just when she started to almost like Ian again—after all, he'd flown across the ocean and had been working around the clock to help—his snob quotient went through the roof.

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.

I loved all the parts of him, even the ones I didn't understand.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

Ideas... they have the power

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.