I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

As long love exist in this so do hatred

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

Anger is practical awkwardness.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.