Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

...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.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

It's rally bad when dads cry.

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.