The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

...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.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Arizona changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.