There's pride and then there's stupidity.

There are always loose ends in real life.

How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness, " she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nill

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.

You can achieve anything, as long as you put your mind to it.

Life is all about impact, become an influential millionaire by touching million lives.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.