I'm no longer willing to let myself down.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

You can never play a part in life, especially not in love.

I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

We want the kind of love that sells movie tickets.

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

Hours of research can cut months of field work.

We've been insufferable friends for years.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.