Words worth keeping

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Not all those who wander are lost.