Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?