Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.""You already hit him with a car.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

Adapt to any situation.

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.