I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it’s a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood, O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low. Or else misgraffed in respect of years, O spite! too old to be engag’d to young. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends, O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.
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