Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.