And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.

Loving her is so damn easy. It’s as natural as breathing or the beating of a heart.

it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.