The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Greed makes one want to get blessings without qualifying for it

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

A recent study found that people lie more when they are texting. Yeah, especially that one lie: "Sorry, just got your text!

I never dress to shock.

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Everyone is not your customer.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.