Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Nothing was more nauseating than people who constantly complained about their life, but did nothing about it.

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.