My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Boredom is why God invented books.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.