All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.

I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life, " said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—‘important’ if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and ‘serious’ expresses what I mean much better

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

No man is hurt but by himself.

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.

It's important not to take anything for granted.

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