Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.