You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.