I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.