“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now.”

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“Not everything is about you.”

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he had learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”