You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Learn to read and a whole new world will open up to you.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.