It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

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

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

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

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

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

Maintaining a good health is the biggest investment that you could ever make, because without it, a lot of things in life would become impossible.

She’ll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her.

Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.

You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.