If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too.