Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

She'd realize Steve was her soul mate and that she would never love anyone as much as she loved him.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

I'm an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We're looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.