The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings