You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

...if you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.