“I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway”

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

We all have souls of different ages.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.

I don’t even hate books anymore.

Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite when the truth is I’d rather read a book.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.