It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

It is easy to be average. It takes no endeavor at all to be like everybody else.

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

All tradition is merely the past.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.