People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

Supernatural breakthrough requires supernatural expectations.

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

I look forward and see myself look back.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.