I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.