Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase. There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.