Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.