It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Time doesn’t create change. The changes in your life will be in proportion to the decisions you make.

...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

It's time for everybody to start becoming conscious of their conscience.

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

I was never a guy that was really good with a gang of guys anyway.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

That special bond you think you have with your pet is imaginary. As long as it has food and water, you could get hit by a train tomorrow, and your pet wouldn't think anything of it.