“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“We read to know we’re not alone.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”