This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I’m feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your ground. You’ll never learn a thing if you bail out now.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

If it makes you happy It can't be that bad If it makes you happy Then why the hell are you so sad