“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”

“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

“Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked.<br /> “Yeah.”<br /> “When?”<br /> “Right away.”<br /> “How?” I persisted. “We look identical....

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a...

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”

He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?”

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

“There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.”

“I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take...

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”