Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

All people are a single nation.

The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.