"I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it."

“I just want [my daughter Isabelle] to know that she's heard. Really heard, because I feel like that is what we all really want. When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be. I see you, I hear you, I'm with you as you are.”

“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.”

“One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.”

“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.”

“Dan was suspicious. "How did he find out where we were staying?" Amy frowned. "I think that's the message inside the message. He wants us to know that he has a long reach–that's he's rich and powerful." "Like we'll see his giant mansion and assume he works at Burger King," scoffed Dan.”

Source : Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

“I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.”

“I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.”