There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

The day we mean what we say, even a “good morning” can be transformational!!!

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

I put the most pressure on myself. I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.