“Well, what's reality, then? Is it what I think or what other people think?”

“Your reality is not my reality.”

“People think being depressed is just being tired and lazy. It isn't. It's more like being dead when you're still breathing.”

“Every single day should be crazy fun.”

“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”

“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of ...”

“Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”