What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia.

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

I was born in the age of "alas".

Love is what stands in the way of self discovery, try not to find, it will find you.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.