...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

It might even teach Murray that while finding true love was one of the most wonderful things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.

Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.

But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.

For if you succeed in making this girl laugh, if you make her laughter ring in the air like a fountain of silver coins cascading to the floor, you will win her heart forever.

Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

Panties are a privilege, not a right.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.