"If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."

"El secreto de aburrir a la gente consiste en decirlo todo."

"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter — they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."

"And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have."

"Time, like a loan from the bank, is something you’re only given when you possess so much that you don’t need it"

"If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him."

"It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."

"I don’t believe in failure, because simply by saying you’ve failed, you’ve admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them."