“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”

“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“The color of truth is gray.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

“The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but act...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”