I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed.

she prays to feel as powerful as she might if God sang silentwords into her ear and answeredall the rattling questions

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.