Words worth keeping

Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.