"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often."

"People are the most difficult thing in the world to change"

"She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

"You don't put your life into your books, you find it there."

"You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."

"A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world."

"Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go."

"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."

"Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)"

"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."

"CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight."

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

"If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know."

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."

"Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there."

"CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment."

"When all else fails, there's always delusion."

"I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."

"Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there."

"To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."