There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

Habit is necessary to give power.