I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

A man can smell a woman's sadness

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.

deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.