There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

I'm giving everyone involved 24 hours to make it right or the world will hear how I really feel.

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.