...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.

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.

You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.

But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced