I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall

I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.