“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!”

“And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She felt the unscaleable wall surrounding her. I thought of...

Reason

People

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.”

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people,...

“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden...

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing...

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.”

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”