“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”

“Its natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“If you care about something you have to protect it If youre lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where...”

“I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.”

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“If you only write when youre inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but youll never be a novelist because youre going to have to make your word count today and those words arent going to wait fo...”