Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it!

I thought you're someone worth fighting for. But after all, you're not.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

When you think of H&M, you're thinking of something that's accessible to a broad range of people, perhaps far broader than most of these beautiful shows.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.