My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

I fell in love with his unchanging soul.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.

You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.

Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.

Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.

The universe is in fact a multiverse.

Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.

Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.