There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away.

So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.

You never cease to be unique.

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.

Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to reveal the errors in our beliefs.

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.