The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Actually I have to say when I'm acting, I try not to think about directing at all.

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