You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I love having a little bit of bronzer of some sort and I love looking golden.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.