When boredom strikes, we strike back.

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

…Because you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.

No man is an island, but I’ve got one hell of a peninsula

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

There’s two kinds of people - them going somewhere and them going nowhere. And that is what’s true.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18,
you can drink at 21, and retire at 65.
So how old do you have to be before your love is real?

He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they’d waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.