Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

...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.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.

Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

Those who follow are always behind.

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.