Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

One who loves lives a thousand years in one day

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.