“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”