Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

If We Lose...We're All Screwed.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.