There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

Destiny cutsthe cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.