No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

I love you, Kitten. There's nothing on this earth or under it that can change that.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.