They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Quest assignments are never wrong.

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

I need to work to feel well.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.

Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.