But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

Writers do not find subjects

Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word.

If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

I feel that one must deliberate then act must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.