the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?