To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.