There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.

Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

But that's the difference between people and stars. A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.

How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

On the trail of another man the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn: any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!