You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

The world's major religions: Same boss, different departments.

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury.