“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

“When I was your age, television was called books.”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”