Famous Quotes

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

"Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously."

"It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you."

"You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved."

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."

"Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?"

"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense."

"The greatest wealth is health"

"If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again."

"When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave"

"Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well."

"People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."

"We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."

"It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes."

"The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness"

"May all that have life be delivered from suffering"

"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."

"You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts."

"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."

"People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion."