There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.