Joy Quotes

Each of us has a private Austen.

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort of a global political figure.

Democrats in the contrast with Republicans, almost no matter which Republican is nominated. Because they are taking such similar positions.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

What Martin Shkreli will end up if he does wind up going to prison. I think that's I think what shocks a lot of people, that this is perfectly legal.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

I totally think that the likelihood upon this whole galaxy and universe, we are the only ones... I don't think we are.

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science