“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me...”

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”

“So many books, so little time.”

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”