“There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.”

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

“Isolation is unbearable because one is unbearable to oneself. One is a puzzle, feels unworthy, full of contradictions, strange desires, inchoate yearnings, and boundless ambitions. The isolated person has no resources to be able to stand up to the world and to justify himself.”

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It is your masterpiece after all”

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

“There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them.”

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

“When I’m lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death, and neither one particularly appeals to me.”

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

"A mistake repeated more than once is a decision."

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever the personality chooses to do is absolutely delightful to me”

You like books. You love them. You need them. I won’t apologize for introducing anyone to ThriftBooks. I probably should - but I won’t.

“I remembered a definition of chivalry I’d heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.”