Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.