All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.

A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.

No matter how much you nourish, the flower blossoms in its own time. Just like people.

Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.