“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll...

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily...

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story...

“People, generally, suck.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are...

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut...

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

“While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your...