There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

Everybody is a main character to someone

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

An afro is a poor man’s haircut.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.