There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.