It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

I am addicted to love.Love is my beloved drug.

I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best.

[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.