The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

We have enormous challenges in front of us.