What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

Take risks in order to innovate

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.