When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

All I can say about life is Oh God enjoy it!

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

You want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.