Pajamas are good for the soul.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.