“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.”

“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”

Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

“you boys can keep your virgins<br /> give me hot old women in high heels<br /> with asses that forgot to get old.”

“The real world is where the monsters are.”

“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I...

“Love is not the absence of logic<br /> but logic examined and recalculated<br /> heated and curved to fit<br /> inside the contours of the heart”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved...

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly...

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first...

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a...

“I will not play at tug o' war.<br /> I'd rather play at hug o' war,<br /> Where everyone hugs<br /> Instead of tugs,<br /> Where everyone...

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your...

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”