The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.

There was cruelty in silence, and isolation made it worse.

It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less but it is so much beautiful if humanity takes much from you, it is an investment into life.

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.