The problem with books is that they end.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.

we’re too old to be young.

... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You

In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

The worst enemies of success are fear and doubt.

Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi

The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.