We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

One flub, one little mistake, could ruin everything.

She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.