It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.