Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: “I wish no gifts, only presence.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

I think I'm too much of a control freak.

Who do I look like, Nancy freaking Drew?

Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.