There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

We obtain things when we no longer want them.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.