Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

I need to be able to face things.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Even if you're a guy and you don't believe in dancing, you should try dance cardio. It's really fun!

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.