It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.