I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

Justice is the essence of peace

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Habit is overcome by habit.