I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.