A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.